Combs’ ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ resumes testimony

“Jane” testified that despite telling Combs she didn’t want to do “hotel nights,” he surprised her with an entertainer for her birthday in 2023. 

For her birthday, Combs told her to go to Miami and have a birthday party with just him. She expected quality time, dinner and sex with just Combs, she said.

Once at dinner, she said she was dressed up and “really happy to be around my lover.” Then, she said, he sprung on her: “I’m so excited to see the entertainer tonight.” 

“I had this gulp, I did not expect that,” she said. Combs told her, “It’s your birthday and let’s have fun.”

“I just accepted it,” she recalled.

She said she didn’t know the entertainer and didn’t want to have sex with him, but didn’t want Combs to be unhappy with her either. 

Jane tearfully testified that after sex with that entertainer, two more came afterward. She said she was having sex as Combs watched until the morning hours.

Combs is sitting with his hands clasped in front of him, watching “Jane” testify. All of the attorneys, from both the prosecution and the defense, appear riveted by Jane’s testimony today.

“Jane” said one of the men who was included in a 2021 “hotel night” with Combs “repulsed” her, saying he was sweaty, smelly and “didn’t look nice.”

“I just remember I was hesitant,” the witness said of the encounter with the man at the Hermitage hotel.

“I tried to make it work. I tried to kind of seduce him with my body and, I don’t know, make some sort of attraction happen,” she said, but he was so sweaty that she was trying to give Combs looks to show she “wasn’t feeling this.”

While wearing high heels and lingerie, she tried to dodge Combs’ suggestions to perform oral sex on the man, repeatedly telling him she wasn’t feeling it, she said.

Then, she said, Combs started having sex with her “and I just remember this man sweating on me.” Combs then dismissed the man, Jane recalled.

“Jane” was asked about entertainers she met with.

One man, who went by the nickname “Chef,” was chosen when Jane and Combs were watching some of his videos, taking drugs and having sex, she said. She said she got in touch with Chef after Combs “encouraged” her to.

She and Chef would have sexual FaceTime calls and she’d mirror the video call on the TV, for Combs to watch, she said.

The prosecution asked Jane if she wanted to have sex with the entertainers she ended up picking, and Jane reiterated “no.” She said she did it because “I wanted to impress my lover.” She said she didn’t see two of the entertainers in person without Combs and he’d encourage her to ask for explicit photos and videos.

At first, Combs chose the entertainers who joined “hotel nights,” but later, “Jane” started to pick them, she said, explaining, “I didn’t like to be surprised by a stranger.”

She said she and Combs watched pornography and from there she had the idea to choose the entertainer she liked from it. 

All the men involved were strangers. She started to pick the entertainers in late 2021, early 2022.

“I hated it,” Jane said. “If I am going to be doing this, I should choose who’s going to be on my body.”

Despite calling it a “sobriety party,” “Jane” said Combs used ecstasy and cocaine that night in Beverly Hills.

She said the party lasted “too long, hours” during which she went through the “typical routine.” She said she was in an outfit with Combs, then went two rounds with two different men.

After that, Jane said she went to the bathroom because she wasn’t feeling well and she threw up.

“Sean came in and he was like, ‘That’s good, you’ll feel better. Let’s go, the third guy is here,'” she recalled him saying.

She said she hated doing the sobriety party without drugs, adding she was “repulsed” and “so mad at myself for doing that.”

“Jane” said the longest “hotel night” was 3 to 3.5 days over New Year’s in 2022. 

She said she did not sleep at all and stayed awake with ecstasy. The shortest “hotel night” was 12 hours long. 

When asked how she stayed awake, she answered that it was through the use of ecstasy, caffeine, water and protein shakes. 

“Jane” said she felt like she “had to” take drugs during “hotel nights” with Combs because “when I wouldn’t, it would just feel too real,” something she said she didn’t want to experience.

“I just wanted to kind of just feel like it would … it would just make things easier,” she said, again breaking down in tears.

She said she attempted two “hotel nights” without drugs. The first, she said she “didn’t like it, the fantasy wasn’t there, it was too real, it wasn’t easy.” She said she ultimately asked for a pill, after which she “felt much better.”

The second time, she said she wanted Combs to get sober because she cared about him so much. He agreed to take 30 days off from drugs, but said, “Let’s just have one more sobriety party,” Jane recalled.

In court, “Jane” said she felt “obligated” to participate in Combs’ “hotel nights” because she felt if she did not, he would take her house away from her, which he was paying for.

“I wish we could take this back to when we first started dating,” Jane wrote in a text to Combs displayed in court. “Ever since I opened Pandora’s box, I haven’t been able to close it.”

She said “one night of fun just turned into the entirety of our relationship,” adding that she felt “disgusted with myself” and was “confusing your lust for me as love,” causing her heart to break.

She told Combs in the text she didn’t “want to play this role in your life anymore.”

“It’s dark, sleazy and makes me feel disgusted with myself. It’s the only reason you have me around and why you pay for my house,” she continued. “I don’t want to feel obligated to perform and fear losing you. I don’t want to feel like that anymore, I just want to talk like adults and figure where we go from here.”

“Jane” told the jury that she tried to get “hotel nights” over with as soon as she could. 

“[Combs] didn’t like that, he asked me to slow things down and do more foreplay,” she explained. When she tried to speed things up, Combs would allegedly say “not yet.”

“Jane” broke down in sobs as she described encounters with sex partners during alleged “hotel nights” that she said could go on for multiple “rounds.”

When she wanted to stop for the time, she said she would tell Combs she was tired, to which he would respond, “You’re not getting tired on me are you? Let’s finish strong.”

She said, through tears, that she didn’t know why she didn’t outright tell Combs she wanted to stop, and that he would give her “multiple doses” of ecstasy per night in order to keep her awake.

“Jane” was asked what protection she and entertainers used during “hotel nights,” and said they used none because Combs “did not want it.”

Jane said she asked Combs at least twice if the entertainer could wear condoms. The second time she asked was at a Miami hotel, she said, and he responded “almost incensed” and “guilt tripped” her. “He said he didn’t want to see a rubber while he was watching,” she said. 

“Jane,” a former girlfriend of Combs’, is back on the stand for another day of testimony. The prosecution will continue direct questioning of what is supposedly their last witness in the trial.

Yesterday, “Jane,” Combs’ former girlfriend, testified that she and Combs shared a loving relationship beginning in 2021. After her first “freak off,” however, she said it became a “Pandora’s box” situation in which she felt she had no choice but to oblige.

The sex sessions could last between 24 and 30 hours with no sleep, Jane said. As a single mother who came to depend on Diddy, “I felt an obligation because I knew he was paying my rent,” she testified.

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie Ventura’s, testified yesterday about an incident where Combs allegedly dangled her over a 17th-floor balcony in Los Angeles in 2016.

The defense accused her of lying, showing a hotel receipt that appeared to show Combs was at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan around the time of the alleged incident. Combs’ attorney, Westmoreland, asked Bongolan: “You came in here and lied to the jury, isn’t that true?” Bongolan replied: “I can’t agree with you.”

Enrique Santos, an investigative analyst for the U.S. attorney’s office, also briefly testified about extracting data from cellphones, including deleted messages. One such message from Cassie Ventura’s phone showed her informing Combs Enterprises’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, about the alleged 2016 balcony dangling incident.

Combs was warned yesterday to steer clear of any looks toward the jury.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that Combs would try to interact with the jury panel during testimony. Subramanian told defense attorney Marc Agnifilo that if Combs doesn’t comply, “I will give an instruction to the jury, or it could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom.”

So the court will surely be casting more than a passing glance at Combs today to make sure he’s not trying to make any eye contact with panelists.

Combs’ former girlfriend, using the pseudonym “Jane,” should be back on the witness stand this morning to continue what could be a marathon stint of testimony.

Her direct examination should go until Monday, lead prosecutor Maurene Ryan Comey has said.

The goal is to have her excused by Thursday next week, when she’s booked to fly home.